Steamboat Forsvik from Forsvik

Swedish Steamboats


Steamboat Forsvik from Forsvik

Steamship Forsvik
 Built in 1867 at Lindahl och Runer, Gävle Sweden
Call sign Measures in meter Tonnage Engine
kW
Speed
Knots
Length Beam Draught Gross Net
  9.5 2.0       2.2  
 Fire tube boiler with one furnaces. 3 bar
 Single cylinder engine, make "Lindahl & Runer, Gävle 1867"

SS Forsvik in harbour

 

The engine onboard SL Forsvik

Onboard

 

The wood-fired boiler

The wood-fired boiler.
The stoker fires the boiler from the fore-side of the boiler.

 

The single cylinder engine.
Notice the steering wheel at the top of the picture. The captain navigates and operates the engine.
At the bottom of the picture is the patented reversing system that turns the excenter 180° on the crankshaft when shifting the engine from ahead to astern

The single sylinder enginer

Steamboat Forsvik from Forsvik

© 2007 Lars Josefsson  Steamships